Car-seat.



No. 657,490. Patented Sept. 4, I900.

D. M. HOUSTON.

EAR SEAT.

(Application filed Apr. 25, 1900.)

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DONALD M. HOUSTON, OF WAKEFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TC THE HEYWOOD- BROTHERS & WAKEFIELD COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,490. dated September 4,1900.-

Application filed. April 25, I900. Serial No. 14,237. (No model.)

T aZZ whom it may concern: elevate one of the foot-rests 3 and depress the Be it known that I, DONALD-M. HOUSTON, other, as will be understood by Fig. 2. The of Wakefield,in the county of Middlesex and cams 8 8 bear against lugs 14 14, formed on State of Massachusetts, have invented certain the seat-supporting slides 4. The arms 7 and 5 5 new and useful Improvements in Car-Seats, cams 8 of one rock-shaft project at a differof which the following is a specification. ent angle fromthe arms 7 andcams S of the This invention relates to a car-seat having other rock-shaft,as shown in Fig.2, the relaa reversible ,or swinging back, a foot-rest -tive arrangement being such that when the frame which is reversible with the back, and armand cam of one rock-shaft are raised the [O aseatwhichisalso reversible,in that its transarm and cam of the other rock-shaft are deverse inclination can be varied to raise that pressed, thus causing the arms 7 7 and links edge which is at the front and depress the 20 to act oonjointly in holding the foot-rest edge which is at the rear. frame in an inclined position and the cams The invention has for its object to provide .88 to act conjointly in holding theseat-sup-.

r 5 simple and efficient means whereby the reporting slides lat one endof their movement. versal of the back. causes also a reversal of 16 represents the seat-back, to'the ends of theposition of the foot-rest frame and seat. which are affixed metal arms 17, the lower Theiuvention consists in theimprovements ends of which are provided withears 18 18. which I will now, proceed to describe and To said ears are jointed two parallel links 19 20 claim. l j 19, the lower ends ofwhich are secured rigidly Of the accompanying drawings, forming a to the rock-shafts 6 6. part of this specification, Figure 1 represents It will be seen that when the back is moved a top plan view of a car-seat embodying my from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to invention, the seat-cushion being removed. v theopposite position'the inclination of the 25 Fig. 2 represents a section on line2 2 of Fig. 1. links 19 will be changed, causing a partial The same reference characters indicate the rotation of the rook-shafts, reversing the posame parts in both of the figures. sition of the foot-rest frame and the inclina- The rigid supporting-frame of the seat com tion of the seat-supporting slides. prises the two end pieces 2 2 and the connect- .The segmental form of the cross-bars of the o ing-bars 3 3, the upper sidesnofthe connect footrest frame and their adaptation to slide ing-barsbeing inclined to form guides for the upon therock-shafts 6 6 provide for an adeseat-supporting slides 4 4, the latter having quatebaggage-receiving space between each inclines 5 5 on the under sides of their end cross-bar and the floor of the car, the connectportions bearing on the inclined upper suring devices between the rock-shafts and the 35 faces of the bars 3. z t cross-bars being entirely above the lower 6 6 representrock-shafts which are jouredges of the cross-bars, so that there is no naled in hearings on the endpieces 2 2 of the. mechanism projecting below the cross-bars. seat-frame. To said rock-shafts are affixed This arrangement provides avery convenient arms 7 7 and cams 8 8. The outer ends of space under the seat for the storage of hand 40 the arms are connected by links 20 20 with baggage,1&c.

studs 22, inserted in or otherwise affixed to In Fig. 1.1 have omitted one ofthe arms 7 the segmental cross-barsll ll, which, with and the accompanying link 20 from each i the parallel foot-rests 13 13, constitute the rock-shaft. it reversible foot-rest frame. The segmental I c1aim+ p i 45 cross-bars 11 are provided with. segmental l. Ina car-seat, a seat-frame, two rock- 7 slots 21, through which the rock-shafts 6 6 shaftsjournaled in fixed hearings in the seatpass, said slots being longerithan the space frame and each having two rigidly-attached between the outer sides of the rock-shafts, so arms, a foot-rest frame comprising parallel that the foot-rest frame has an edgewiseslidfoot rests and segmental restconnecting 50 log motion on the rock-shafts, the segmental cross-bars having" segmental slots through form of the slots 21 causing this motion to whichthe rock-shafts pass,thefoot-rest frame 

